Author: Charles Frederick ReidPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Guam
Languages : en
Pages : 118
Book Description
Bibliography of the Island of Guam
Author: Charles Frederick ReidPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Guam
Languages : en
Pages : 118
Book Description
A History of Guam
Author: Lawrence J. CunninghamPublisher: Bess Press
ISBN: 9781573060684
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 356
Book Description
Covers the lives and legends of the first people of Guam and traces the island's development into present day. Illustrations, glossary, index. RL4
Destiny's Landfall
Author: Robert F. RogersPublisher: University of Hawaii Press
ISBN: 0824833341
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 409
Book Description
This revised edition of the standard history of Guam is intended for general readers and students of the history, politics, and government of the Pacific region. Its narrative spans more than 450 years, beginning with the initial written records of Guam by members of Magellan 1521 expedition and concluding with the impact of the recent global recession on Guam’s fragile economy.
Annotated Bibliography of Geologic and Soils Literature of Western North Pacific Islands
Author: United States. Army. Forces, Far EastPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Geology
Languages : en
Pages : 904
Book Description
Bibliography of the Philippine Islands
Author: Appleton Prentiss Clark GriffinPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Philippines
Languages : en
Pages : 872
Book Description
Historical Dictionary of Guam and Micronesia
Author: William L. WuerchPublisher: Scarecrow Press
ISBN: 9780810828582
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 212
Book Description
Provides basic reference material on Micronesia, a region encompassing a vast area of the tropical western Pacific Ocean. Includes the Mariana, Caroline, Marshall, and Gilbert islands and the island nation of Nauru.
Captured
Author: Roger MansellPublisher: Naval Institute Press
ISBN: 1612511236
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 290
Book Description
In the years before the outbreak of the war in the Pacific, Guam was a paradise for the Navy, Marine and civilian employees of Pan American Airways, who found themselves stationed on the island. However their apprehension about the fate of the island increased as they anticipated a Japanese attack in the fall of 1941. Shortly after attack on Pearl Harbor, Guam was bombed and the Japanese invasion soon followed. Since Guam was not heavily fortified it soon fell to the invading Japanese. In the takeover of the island, the Japanese practiced a swift brutality against the captive Americans as well as native population, and then immediately removed the American military and civilian personnel to Japan. Only a lucky few escaped, including five Navy nurses and dependent Ruby Hellmers and her baby Charlene, who were transported back to America aboard the Swedish ship Gripsholm in mid-1942. In Captured, Mansell tells the story of the captives from Guam, whose story until now has largely been forgotten. Drawing upon interviews with survivors, diaries and archival records, Mansell documents the movements of American military and civilian men as they went from one Japanese POW camp to another, slowly starving as they performed slave labor for Japanese companies. Meanwhile, he describes the brutal horrors suffered by Guamian natives during Japan’s occupation of the island, especially as the Japanese prepared for American forces to re-take this U.S. possession in 1945. Moving stories of liberation, transportation home, and the aftermath of these horrific experiences are narrated as the book draws to a close. Mansell concludes that America’s lack of military preparation, disbelief in Japan’s ambitions in the Pacific, and focus on Europe all contributed to the captivity of more than three years of suffering for the forgotten Americans from Guam as the Pacific War raged around them. Captured was completed by historian Linda Goetz Holmes after the death of Roger Mansell.
Bibliography of the Philippine Islands ...
Author: Library of CongressPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Philippines
Languages : en
Pages : 878
Book Description
Bibliography of the Philippine Islands ...: A list of books (with references to periodicals) on the Philippine Islands in the Library of Congress, by A. P. C. Griffin ... with chronological list of maps in the Library of Congress, by P. Lee Phillips
Author: Library of CongressPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Philippines
Languages : en
Pages : 429
Book Description
A List of Books (with References to Periodicals) on the Philippine Islands in the Library of Congress
Author: Library of CongressPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Electronic books
Languages : en
Pages : 434
Book Description